October 26, 2005 – Symbian Ltd. today announced that Symbian OS, the leading open standard based operating system for advanced mobile phones, is used in four new models of NTT DoCoMo FOMA™ series, namely F902i, D902i, SH902i and SO902i. The FOMA 902i series will be manufactured by Symbian OS licensee Fujitsu Limited (F902i), Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (D902i), Sharp Corporation (SH902i) and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc (SO902i).

SH902i and SO902i are the first models based on Symbian OS for Sharp and Sony Ericsson in Japan. Symbian OS brings higher quality mobile phones with better features quickly to consumers, expanding the 3G cell phone market even further.

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS™, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. In the first half of 2005, more than 14.5 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 200 network operators, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to more than 39 million.

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